[jjgreen]

It seems sad to me that someone who could have spent his time doing, you know, actual physics, instead has frittered away his life shooting social-scientists in a barrel. How many books on this now? Yeah yeah, we'll all agree that social scientists aren't proper scientists, now will you move on already?

[tgv]

One of the problems is that we can't agree on what proper science is. Another one is that even if we do agree, we don't know how to do it. Yet another is one is that many people listen to social scientists and take their word. Economy is a pretty clear example, but there are also cases of statements by social scientists taken as authoritative by the general public, ranging all the way from mental health to (social) injustice.